War Vets Push For Affordable Insurance

War Vets Push For Affordable Insurance

This sounds like a really promising development. Let your representatives know that you want this to be made available NOW. Kudos to Ryan Kelly for moving this forward. I would have thought with the throngs of minions at the DOD and Pentagon someone could have prepared for this type of insurance! Guess it takes someone who's been there and done that.

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Kelly, an advocate with the Wounded Warrior Project who travels throughout the nation, came up with the idea of catastrophic disability insurance for soldiers who return from combat blind, immobile, severely burned or missing a limb.

Service members would be automatically enrolled in the insurance program unless they opt out, and would pay $12 a month. Some cost would be picked up by the government, "but it wouldn't be a burden," said Kelly.

A lump sum of $10,000 to $50,000 would be paid under his plan.

Kelly worked with Jeremy Chwat, director of public policy at United Spinal Association, a Queens-based nonprofit group affiliated with Wounded Warrior, to draft legislation.

"We're very close to ironing out the finished product, and we'll roll it out to the VA officials, and present it to a member of Congress, in the next two weeks," Chwat said. "We will be looking for a [legislative] sponsor with a strong connection to veterans."